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French doctor gets 20-year jail for assaulting 299 people in paedophilia case
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A French court has sentenced Joel Le Scouarnec, a doctor who sexually abused 299 people, to 20 years in jail.
Most of Scouarnec's victims were children. The case is considered to be France's largest paedophilia case.
Scouarnec's committed these crimes between 1989 and 2014. He was arrested in 2017.
(This is a developing story. It will be updated as details emerge.)
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